Places drobert Wants to Go

The west's first Japanese museum and the origin of East Asian studies.

The museum within the Kom-Ombo Temple complex houses mummified crocodiles and mummified crocodile eggs.

Over 4500 valuable bibles are safely tucked away in this museum in central Oslo.

Where a neoclassical sculptor rests at the heart of the museum devoted to him.

Enjoy a pint surrounded by Europe’s largest collection of vintage beer advertisements.

A rare cold-water geyser that bubbles to life every half hour.

A Portuguese museum display features a bizarre assortment of objects.

One of the oldest universities in the world exhibits thousands of specimens from its 700-year-old collection.

This little visited park is a treasure trove of ancient Roman ruins.

For two decades in the 13th century, the papacy operated from this palace in central Italy, which served as the site of the first—and longest—papal election conclave in history.

Featuring one of the oldest collections of historic musical literature in the world.

A historic structure inspired by Roman, Muslim, and Jewish bath houses.

This brass doorknob is a nod to a local literary figure.

This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.

This island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.

This fortified town dating back to the 1400s is often described as an open-air museum and is a protected National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

One of the few German synagogues to survive the Kristallnacht pogrom has been beautifully restored.

The oldest civic library in Italy can trace its foundation back to 1619.

A 160-year-old tower built in honor of a scholar who was burned at the stake for translating the Bible.

This enigmatic Iberian sculpture of uncertain origin may have once guarded a burial site.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.

A dad joke was inevitable when a member of this 19th-century chocolatier family married the president of France.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.